Activity Books for Babies & Toddlers

In Book People's selection of books for children in their early years, you'll find activity books for toddlers and activity books for babies. Full of fun ideas, they're great for inspiring a love of books and keeping babies and toddlers' minds active.

Read a rhyming version of the Story of Christmas and then fold out the book like a carousel and act out the tale using the figures included with the book.
With flaps to lift and die-cut pieces, this interactive book comes presented in a convenient box with a handle for easy transportation and is full of fun artwork that is sure to catch the eye of any young reader.

Including over 100 stickers, this seasonal book invites your children to join Santa and his hard-working elves at the busy grotto.
Featuring reindeer, robins and dogs, this cool sticker book has wonderfully wintry scenes to decorate.
This festive book will keep children happily entertained and busy as excitement gathers in the build-up to the big day.

Shake Me Blue is a book with a rattle that young children won't be able to resist holding and shaking!
It has eye-catching high-contrast colours and fun illustrations that children will pore over. Its study board pages can withstand even the toughest toddler tantrum!

Shake Me Green is a book with a rattle that young children won't be able to resist holding and shaking!
It has eye-catching high-contrast colours and fun illustrations that children will pore over. Its study board pages can withstand even the toughest toddler tantrum!

Young children will have so much fun working their way through mazes, spotting the odd one out and completing dot-to-dot challenges in these six awesome activity books.
Boldly presented, these books are hugely entertaining and have an educational slant that will help children develop their visual thinking and problem-solving skills.
Every page also has a puzzle and additional activity to complete.
Format: paperback

With its combination of patterned felt and board book pages, this is a special book for little sleepyheads.
Offering a tactile reading experience, it has gorgeous artwork to pore over with plenty of things to spot - including an elusive bunny. The felt pages have cut-out shapes that offer a tremendously tactile experience for any little child
The sweet book has a running theme of sleep and its soothing and lyrical text is sure to help younger children drift off to the land of nod... It's perfect for parents and very young children to read together.

With its combination of patterned cut-out felt and board book pages, this book contains favourite nursery rhymes including Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Round and Round the Garden and Row, Row, Row Your Boat.
Offering a tactile reading experience, this little book has gorgeous artwork to pore over with plenty of things to spot (including an elusive bunny) and children will love the texture of the felt and the shapes inside it.
It's a lovely book for parents to share with their very young children.

With titles including Super Sharks, Mighty Machines and Magical Unicorns, these first sticker activity books will appeal to young children with all kinds of interests.
Each boldly illustrated book is packed with fun colouring, counting and matching activities and the big stickers are perfect for little hands to hold as they children begin to develop their dexterity. Each book also has card press-outs of characters for children to play with.
With giant stickers, these brightly coloured books are perfect for sharing out in party bags or as gifts for school classrooms.
Format: paperback

Packed with wipe-clean games, activities and fun learning, this three-book collection will keep children happily entertained as they count down to Christmas Day.
Ideal for preschoolers and those just starting to read, each book comes with a wipe-clean pen (in festive red, of course) and the activities can be completed over and over again.
These books are bright, bold and the activities range from mazes and puzzles to ones based around ABCs and 123s.
Format: paperback

These First Colouring Books from Usborne are full of fun partly coloured-in scenes of zoos, jungles and more for children to add their own personal style to.
They also have text asking children to spot simple things in each scene. This will help develop children's observational skills while they get creative.
Format: paperback

This gorgeous little book has everything your children need to be able to tell the time - rhyming step-by-step instructions and a hands-on practice clock.
Cuddly Rabbit and his friends go through the times of the day to help children familiarise with the right clock face for waking up, eating breakfast, brushing their teeth, getting dressed and going out to play.
The interactive clock has click-clack hands that stay in place when children have added the correct time. There are also handy hints for learning how to tell when it's quarter past, half past and quarter to.

Spotty Dog and his animal friends will help your children learn how to tie their shoelaces in a variety of ways. This book has step-by-step instructions for the traditional method, a loop bow and a double-quick bow.
It even includes a practice shoe encased in the book so children can try the skill over and over again before mastering their own shoes. This is a handy introduction to a valuable and important life skill.

This bright and bold book is packed with sliders, spinners and other novelty mechanisms that will help children learn over 50 first words.
It encourages children to develop their dexterity skills while also using their imagination. It's an exciting way to introduce new words into their vocabulary.

This beautiful book celebrates the diverse nature of families. It asks children what they think families look like and to name the members of your family. It then goes on to reveal how each family is different. It talks about lone-parent, adoptive, foster, divorced, remarried, mixed-race families and so many more types to show children how families come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

Children can learn about numbers, phonics and tackle a number of words and maths puzzles with these wipe-clean books. Ready? Set! Learn!
The wipe-clean pages of these bright and colourful books mean children can have fun practising the curriculum-based and teacher-approved activities over and over again.
The interactive nature will help build children's confidence and pen control.

These 25 entertaining and educational flashcards contain words specifically chosen for children due to their frequency of use. They come presented in a box with a handle, flip lid, booklet of activities and wipe-clean pen.
Covering 50 first words, each flashcard features a word on the front and back and is sure to inspire children to start enjoying learning. The booklet is full of activities to help make learning fun.
The flashcards have simple designs, accessible artwork and multiple ways of being used.

This fun bus-shaped book introduces five key concepts including the alphabet, numbers, colours, shapes and opposites.
With lift-the-flap elements and colourful artwork of amazing animal characters, it's perfect for helping preschoolers get set for school. It will help reassure children as they start learning.

This board book uses turning-wheel mechanisms to help children learn the sounds of letters. It's packed with activities that ask readers to find the right sounds to go with images on each page.
Turn the wheel to see different letters through cut-out windows and then choose the correct sound to complete the rest of the word. This book comes with a wipe-clean pen to trace the pictures and letters on every spread.

Children interested in nature and all kinds of creepy-crawlies will love learning the facts on display in this fun lift-the-flap book.
It explains how a bug hotel is a home-made habitat where insects of all shapes and sizes can come to stay. It even encourages children to build one in their own back garden using common and natural materials including straw, wood and stone.
Among the critters it features are bees, snails and ladybirds and it also offers simple explanations of their traits and behaviour.

The Bird House is a shaped lift-the-flap book that will help children learn more about our feathered friends.
This book opens with an explanation about how bird houses can come in all shapes and sizes and how they are usually wooden. They provide safe shelter for birds who need extra protection of don't have a nest. It also reveals how humans can help birds survive.
From the floating structures of duck houses to dovecotes and bird feeders and baths, this is a must for any young nature lover. It even gives simple explanations for the concepts of migration and tips on how to make gardens more suitable, welcoming and bird-friendly.

Children will love learning about numbers with the search-and-find activities features in this book and its accompanying jigsaw.
The sweet activities and beautiful artwork combine to introduce the concept of counting, providing a tactile reading experience and hours of reading fun. Use this set together to encourage your children to develop their number recognition and manual dexterity skills.

With wipe-clean pages and a simple glossary in each one, this four-book collection uses famous fairy tales to help children get to grips with counting and numbers.
Simple and practical, the books cover early numbers, numbers, equals and addition and subtraction. They are all full of easy-to-follow examples, colourful illustrations and fun activities that will help children (and you!) understand the basics.
The appealing books are packed with illustrations and have been developed in conjunction with primary teacher and mathematics consultant, Caroline Clissold.

This placemat-sized activity pad provides a fun way for children to get to grips with the alphabet.
There is plenty of colouring fun to be had and there is a page dedicated to each letter of the alphabet. There are also number recognition and writing activities to complete. The pad also comes with over 100 stickers to further delight children.

This jumbo pad is bursting with activities and colouring fun that will help children learn their first numbers.
With a page for every number from 1-20, there are a number of number-recognition activities to complete and also ones that make use of writing skills. The pad also comes with 100 stickers.